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Geoffrey W. Coombs

Geoffrey W. Coombs

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Microbiology

D-Index
56
Citations
13138
World Ranking
3683
National Ranking
116

Overview

Geoffrey W. Coombs is affiliated with Fiona Stanley Hospital in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases with significant contributions to the study of antimicrobial resistance, particularly in Staphylococcus bacteria.

Their recent publications include:

  • Invasive Fungal Diseases in Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit (FUNDICU): 2024 consensus definitions from ESGCIP, EFISG, ESICM, ECMM, MSGERC, ISAC, and ISHAM, 2024, Intensive Care Medicine
  • The Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform Trial Protocol: New Tools for an Old Foe, 2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Clinical Spectrum and Predictors of Poor Outcome, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • The Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, 2024, Microbiology Australia
  • Global Epidemiology and Evolutionary History of Staphylococcus aureus ST45, 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Shakeel Mowlaboccus
  • Denise A Daley
  • Stanley Pang
  • Princy Shoby
  • Jan M. Bell

Coombs has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Communicable Diseases Intelligence
  • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

The research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Medicine. Within these domains, Coombs has contributed notably to subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Clinical Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of study in their work include:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Best Publications

  • Dissemination of New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones in the Community

    Keiko Okuma;Kozue Iwakawa;John D. Turnidge;Warren B. Grubb

  • A field guide to pandemic, epidemic and sporadic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Stefan Monecke;Geoffrey Coombs;Anna C. Shore;David C. Coleman

  • A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

    Matthew T.G. Holden;Li Yang Hsu;Li Yang Hsu;Kevin Kurt;Lucy A. Weinert;Lucy A. Weinert

  • Evolution of multidrug resistance during Staphylococcus aureus infection involves mutation of the essential two component regulator WalKR.

    Benjamin P Howden;Christopher R E McEvoy;David L Allen;Kyra Y L Chua;Kyra Y L Chua

  • Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Ulrich Nübel;Philippe Roumagnac;Mirjam Feldkamp;Jae Hoon Song

  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a major cause of mortality in Australia and New Zealand

    John D Turnidge;Despina Kotsanas;Wendy Munckhof;Sally Roberts

  • Antibiotic Choice May Not Explain Poorer Outcomes in Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia and High Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations

    Natasha E. Holmes;John D. Turnidge;John D. Turnidge;Wendy J. Munckhof;Wendy J. Munckhof;James O. Robinson

  • Rapid identification of fungi by sequencing the ITS1 and ITS2 regions using an automated capillary electrophoresis system

    T. M. Pryce;S. Palladino;I. D. Kay;G. W. Coombs

  • Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols

    Sacha J. Pidot;Wei Gao;Andrew H. Buultjens;Ian R. Monk

  • Not Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)! A Clinician's Guide to Community MRSA - Its Evolving Antimicrobial Resistance and Implications for Therapy

    Kyra Chua;Frederic Laurent;Geoffrey Coombs;M Lindsay Lindsay Grayson

  • Genomic Insights to Control the Emergence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

    Benjamin P Howden;Kathryn E Holt;Margaret M C Lam;Torsten Seemann

  • Diversity among community isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Australia.

    F. G. O'Brien;T. T. Lim;F. N. Chong;G. W. Coombs

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Australian community: an evolving epidemic.

    Graeme R Nimmo;Geoffrey W Coombs;Julie C Pearson;Francis G O'Brien

  • Combination of vancomycin and β-lactam therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: A pilot multicenter randomized controlled trial

    Joshua S. Davis;Archana Sud;Matthew V. N. O'Sullivan;Matthew V. N. O'Sullivan;James O. Robinson;James O. Robinson

  • Genetic Diversity among Community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Causing Outpatient Infections in Australia

    Geoffrey W. Coombs;Graeme R. Nimmo;Jan M. Bell;Flavia Huygens

  • Antimicrobial-resistant CC17 Enterococcus faecium: The past, the present and the future.

    Terence Lee;Stanley Pang;Sam Abraham;Geoffrey W. Coombs

  • Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Australia

    Graeme R. Nimmo;Geoffrey W. Coombs

  • Epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of pathogens causing urinary tract infections in the Asia-Pacific region: Results from the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART), 2010-2013

    Shio Shin Jean;Geoffrey Coombs;Thomas Ling;V. Balaji

  • Origin, evolution, and global transmission of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus ST8

    Lena Strauß;Marc Stegger;Patrick Eberechi Akpaka;Abraham Alabi

  • Comparative genomics and DNA array-based genotyping of pandemic Staphylococcus aureus strains encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin

    Stefan Monecke;B. Berger-Bachi;Geoffrey Coombs;Geoffrey Coombs;A. Holmes

  • Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faeciumto handwash alcohols

    S.J. Pidot;W. Gao;A.H. Buultjens;I.R. Monk

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Howden
Benjamin P. Howden University of Melbourne
Graeme R. Nimmo
Graeme R. Nimmo Griffith University
Stefan Monecke
Stefan Monecke Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
John D. Turnidge
John D. Turnidge University of Adelaide
Timothy P. Stinear
Timothy P. Stinear University of Melbourne
Paul D R Johnson
Paul D R Johnson Austin Health
Jan M. Bell
Jan M. Bell University of Adelaide
Peter Collignon
Peter Collignon Australian National University
Darren J. Trott
Darren J. Trott University of Adelaide
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut

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